I'm up this early because I still have a lot of stuff to finish before teaching at 10:50 a.m. This chapter:
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8:15 a.m. Chapter 51. Six pages.
8:16 a.m. Austen makes Lydia enter the house in slow motion (kind of).
8:18 a.m. And Elizabeth's thinking, "Impudence." Nice contrast with vol. I.
8:22 a.m. The characters Lydia and Mrs. Bennet diverge sharper than before from Elizabeth (and Jane) now. They are becoming more than comic relief.
8:28 a.m. This, too, serves a purpose: Lydia lets Elizabeth know Darcy was there at the wedding.
8:31 a.m. And Elizabeth sets to work trying to find out, and that's the narrative's progress. We see again that the action is all in Elizabeth's head (in this chapter, the action is what she accidentally finds out, and how she's trying to find out more). Done :) More after classes---
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